To make the legal versions run perfectly on modern PCs, the PC gaming community has developed definitive fixes:

Max Payne 1 famously struggles with modern CPUs. You often need the "Startup Fix" or the "FixItAll" patch to prevent the game from crashing before the menu loads.

They generally utilized cracks from groups like Skidrow or Razor1911 , meaning the user didn't have to manually move files around. The "Collector’s Edition" Context